Dennis Hastert

With no sign that the GOP has a plan to counter the inevitable, January of 2009 may well begin with a Democrat in office more powerful than any president in modern memory.

If Republicans lose in deeply Republican districts as they did last night, they can literally lose anywhere. The whole electoral map can be redrawn.

The name of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was added Monday to the roster of political heavyweights linked by witnesses to an alleged plan t...

The most powerful person in the House of Representatives left office after his indictment two and a half years ago. But his case has still not come to trial. Why not?

While all eyes were on the presidential campaign and the demise of New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) last week, Republicans on Capitol Hill were suff...

Barack Obama -- not Hillary Clinton -- actively, with TV ads, supported Bill Foster's attempt to win Dennis Hastert's seat in the House. He won a seemingly unwinnable seat, in a very Republican district.

For National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.), every week seems to bring a new set of problems. On Saturday night, things ...

Yesterday, little-known Democrat Bill Foster scored a major upset and won the congressional seat held for 20 years by former House Speaker Dennis Hast...

The AP is reporting that the GOP has lost the House seat vacated by Dennis Hastert: Democrat Bill Foster has snatched former House Speaker Dennis Has...

I must agree with the prescient counsel of Tom DeLay who in 1998 said: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law...."

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who made a farewell speech to House colleagues 11 day earlier, made his resignation official Monday with a letter...

Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert will resign soon rather than complete his term 15 months from now, ending a 21-year career in Congress, Republi...